The general secretary of the PSPV, Ximo Puig, held a meeting this Friday with the singer and co-founder of Al Tall Vicent Torrent to “testify his affection and affection” after the decision of PP Y Vox to remove his name from the Torrent auditorium, the Valencian musician’s hometown. A proposal that has generated a lot of controversy and that has caused various entities such as Acció Cultural, Escola Valenciana or Plataforma per la Llengua to call a rally on the esplanade of the auditorium to denounce the decision of the City Council and show their affection for the Valencian musician.
After meeting with Torrent, Puig has pointed out that “removing the name of Vicent Torrent is an attack on culture and the sense of civility”. The former president of the Generalitat – during his mandate Vicent Torrent received the distinction of the Council for Cultural Merit – has recalled that a society without identity and without culture “is a disentailed society”.
In this sense, the socialist leader wanted to remember that the name of Vicent Torrent in the auditorium “was put up as a testimony of a decades-long career in favor of the Valencian, especially at times when it was prohibited.”
In this line, they explain from the PSPV in a statement, Ximo Puig has also assured that the democrats “we will not remain silent, they will not silence us” and has recalled that the responsibility for these things to happen “is not only of the extreme right, it is also of the PP that has adopted a decision that goes against the social majority”.
